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WayForward on why Adventure Time: EtDBIDK is a dungeon crawler, includes cut feature from first game

by rawmeatcowboy
09 October 2013
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A portion of a Shacknews interview with WayForward's Tomm Hulett...

S: Some fans had speculated that this game would be an Adventure Time RPG. What influenced the decision to make this game a dungeon crawler?

TH: Honestly it came out of feedback from the first game. D3 really did their homework to see what users wanted, and how they reacted to the initial game. What they found was people enjoyed it, but wanted a longer experience—a more challenging experience, as well as more characters to play as, and a multiplayer mode.

So while everyone was crunching the numbers to find the perfect genre that fit all those requirements, Pen said "Hey how about one of those top-down, endless dungeon games?" This is where a show creator who is a gamer comes in handy: it was perfect, so we went from there.

S: After the release of Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!, were there any aspects of the game where you thought, "this works," or "that didn't go over so well?" Did any elements from that game get carried over to or were purposely left out for Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!?

TH: Well, I'm a huge Zelda II fan so I was bummed out initially when I was told we were going in a different direction with this new game--now I'll never get to create my loving homage! Overall though, it was a matter of seeing what resonated with fans about the first game and making sure we did those things bigger and better than ever. Once again, D3's research came in handy: people wanted voice acting! They wanted lots and lots of voice acting!!! So, we certainly have a ton of voice acting. Every line of dialogue on the console versions is spoken, and even quotes taken directly from the show are mostly re-recorded, rather than reused.

There's also a fun feature that was initially planned for "Hey Ice King" but got cut—so we made sure to get that into this game. (But it's mad secretive!)

Full interview here